Thrive Africa
Thrive Africa amplifies the plant-based food systems movement across Africa by bolstering advocates that aim to reduce industrial animal agriculture and create healthy, sustainable, locally-relevant vegan food opportunities.
On this page:Join | Strategic Approach | Theory of Change
Thrive Africa Team & Advisors | Testimonials
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JOIN THRIVE AFRICA
Anyone within Africa is invited to join.
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Thrive Africa Accelerator
Equipping leaders with tools to manage strong campaigns.
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Thrive Africa Vegan Restaurant Week
World’s first Africa-wide, locally-driven, joint vegan campaign.
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Thrive Africa Vegan Women's Initiative
Strengthening leadership in women-identified advocates.
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Thrive Africa Vegan School Lunch Campaign
An Africa-wide, locally-driven, joint campaign.
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Thrive Africa Plant-Powered Holidays
An Africa-wide, locally driven, joint campaign hosted by Thrive Africa Vegan Women’s Initiative.
STRATEGIC APPROACH
Equity is the centerpiece of Thrive Philanthropy. Therefore, Thrive Africa uses a Participator Model Co-Design Approach in developing its projects. Through a Participatory Model Co-Design Approach, Thrive Philanthropy recognizes that as a USA organization, we cannot truly understand the needs of Africa-based organizations, and thus we invited Africa-based individuals to lead Thrive Africa.
Thrive Africa is currently led by Africa-based staff and advocates, with the guidance of Thrive’s Africa Grantee Advisory Committee, Thrive’s Africa Funding Steering Committee, and Thrive’s Global Advisory Committee.
THEORY OF CHANGE
Thrive Africa’s Theory of Change is straightforward.
Through the support of regional experts, we strengthen the skillset, professional network, and funding opportunities of plant-based advocates across Africa while also sparking novel interest in vegan campaigns to new types of organizations.
This in turn, increases the number and strength of vegan, food justice organizations across Africa, which then leads to an increase in institutional meat reduction and plant-based public awareness across the continent, thereby, bringing us one step closer to a world free from industrial farming.
THRIVE AFRICA TEAM AND ADVISORS
Thrive Africa is led by an Africa-based woman team and is guided by the expertise of an Africa-based advisory committee.
TESTIMONIALS
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"What a great 4 months it has been being part of the accelerator. Learning... from different experts has really been eye-opening."
— Charles, Vegan Outreach Kenya, Kenya
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This was my first [experience] with Thrive Africa…I had an insightful experience by following it closely through the webinars that were prepared by Thrive Philanthropy and through the work shared by various vegan organizations and individuals via the Thrive social media channels. I am positive that I will be part of the Africa Vegan Restaurant Week next year.
— Miryam S., Effective Animal Advocacy Africa
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"It has been a great journey, learning, interacting, sharing knowledge, and mostly paving a new way for our community to reduce animal product consumption."
— Elnuru S., EAAW, Tanzania
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"The Africa Accelerator has not only transformed me to a better vegan advocate but has drastically woken the level of compassion I have for animals and nature as a whole. This transformation has inspired me to use every opportunity I have to transform Africans to the noble vegan lifestyle."
— Ngwa D., Happy World, Cameroon
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“It was an amazing accelerator of its own kind. Well-organized and very informative with an amazing design that allows everyone to learn and suit the African environment. The acquired knowledge through the accelerator period will help the EAAW team to work very aggressively towards restaurants campaigns and other vegan programs that will help in transforming many people in Tanzania while serving millions of lives of animals that lost their lives for human food every day.”
— Ayubu, EAAW, Tanzania
